تیمار

Ottoman Turkish

Borrowed from Persian (timâr, “care, nurture”), itself from Middle Persian [script needed] (tymʾl /⁠tēmār⁠/).

تیمار • (timar) (definite accusative تیماری (timarı), plural تیمارلر (timarlar))

care, especially any kind of care and attentive service rendered to a helpless or needy man or beast, as attending the sick, feeding the feeble, cleaning an animal, etc.
(historical) timar, a kind of Ottoman Empire fief granted by the Sultan to a spahi in exchange for his cavalryman service and cultivated by villeins who leased it from him

Turkish: tımar
→ Albanian: timar
→ Arabic: تِيمَار (tīmār, “timar”) – in Egypt and the Sudan in the 19^th century tamar, meaning a hospital; now only تَمَرْجِيّ (tamargi, “medical orderly”)
→ Armenian: թիմար (tʻimar)
→ Bulgarian: тима́р (timár)
→ English: timar
→ Macedonian: тимар (timar)
→ Serbo-Croatian: tìmār / тѝма̄р
→ Spanish: timar

Inherited from Middle Persian [script needed] (tymʾl /⁠tēmār⁠/).

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰiː.mɑ́ːɾ]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰiː.mɑ́ːɾ]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰi.mɔ́ːɾ]

تیمار • (timâr)

care; nurture; provision
- c. 1060, Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Safarnāma [Book of Travels]‎^[6]:
  گروهی را سراییان می‌گفتند و پیادگان بودند از هر ولایتی آمده بودند و ایشان را سپاهسالاری باشد جداگانه که تیمار ایشان دارد و ایشان هر قومی به سلاح ولایت خویش کار کنند، ده هزار مرد بودند.
  gurōhē rā sarāyīyān mē-guftand u pīyādagān būdand az har wilāyatē āmada būdand u ēšān rā sipāhsālārē bāšad judāgāna ki tēmār-e ēšān dārad u ēšān har qawmē ba silāh-i wilāyat-i xwēš kār kunand, dah hazār mard būdand.
  One group was called the Sarāyīs. They were infantrymen who had come from every country, and they had a separate general who took care of them. Every nation of them fought with the weapons of their own country. They were ten thousand men.
grief; anxiety
(historical) timar (Ottoman land grant)